Show apik 1 carrier waylaid near egnar colorado kills one man ma n and possibly fatally wounds other row eow growing out of accusation of shooting horse fesui resulting biting in fist fight 2 days earlier forms the background of tragedy one man is dead another in a cortez hospital not expected to thel livland I 1 1 ya and a mail carrier on the t creek egnar route is in the custody of officers huston goforth age about 28 years was shot to death with a 22 calibre pistol supplemented later with a double barrel shotgun mel brewer a man of middle age is in the cortez corte ez hospital with a 22 calibre bullet in his spine and is not expected to recover james mooney middle aged mail carrier surrendered to officers and confessed the shooting which he claims was in self de defense anse the shooting occurred about noon tuesday approximately one mile south of egnar and grew out of a row that started last sunday when hen brewer accused mooney of shooting a horse belonging to a rancher named steele together brewer and mooney went to the steele place where brewer siding with steele undertook to thresh mooney but decidedly got the worst of the encounter alpar antly smarting brewer enlisted the sympathy and aid of his brother in law huston goforth who waited in egnar until mooney started his return trip to dove creek when they followed him in an automobile overtaking liim him about a mile south of egnar driving along side of the mail car they tried to stop mooney who refused to stop and drove on thereupon th the other car passed the mail car and drove ahead a piece ece where they parked their across the road and walked to meet mooney when they not got near him he whipped out a 22 cal pistol and shot both of them according to reports brot here by persons returning from the vicinity of the crime brewer carrying a slug in his spine managed to get out of range of the pistol and was later picked up and taken to the hospital at cortez where it is said the doctors were afraid to probe for the bullet lodged in his spiral spinal cord goforth is said to have fallen on his f face ace with two slugs in his body and that mooney then took a shotgun from the mail car and shot him to death with it he then went and gave himself urta V an officer of the law j rd was re received delved here that ar brewer N er was still alive at cortez at last evening |